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Without going into discussion about which side of the tracks housed my childhood, I will confess to being ignorant of all three of those facts. And I'm pretty careful about my comas and apostrophes.

So I pulled out my leather bound, specially printed edition of Moby Dick and looked.

Melville did a lot of things that your high school English teacher may take issue with (OK, with which your teacher may take issue) like putting exclamation marks and the like in the middle of a sentence and capitalizing White Whale but he did not hyphenate Moby Dick.

So what gives? Why did this writer - he was reviewing a book - call for hyphenating Moby Dick? For that matter, why does anything other than a word at the end of a paragraph that won't fit on a line get hyphenated?

I dunno. That was my question
Maybe Miss Moby & Mr Dick had a baby whale and Moby-Dick was his last name, and his first name could have been something like Clarence. But if that was the case we never would have heard of him, cause a killer whale named Clarence just wouldn't make sense.